Re: Does the phone tones folder still exist?
Replying purely as a user for now:
Alright @defender.
You're clearly getting a little too close to backseat moderating a bit, so you might want to reign yourself in a little just to be sure. This is not cautionary yet, but you seem to be putting a pretty damn strong defense - last I checked you weren't in the business of manufacturing ui sounds, so:
Tones are generic and 100% disposable, especially true as new systems come out. As far as I am aware there's no law in the books that specifically copyrights the sound assets in the phone, particularly when:
1. There were markets for commercial ringtones already,
2. Android Open Source distributions in particular used public domain/creative commons/otherwise distributable material anyway, and
3. Most royalty free music cannot be distributed as ringtones for this reason alone, because the copyrighteable asset would be on its own in one form or another and not used within a project. Ringtones are/were clearly distributable to begin with, sans commercially available ringtones of songs/commercially-available ringtone databases that used to be around like the great 1001 Ringtones.
4. Defender, did you, like, literally just completely forget about the commercially-available NS Studios sound library, the one that has the stock sounds and tones from a landline phone? If he had rights to clear, I doubt it would be on the market today because no landline phone manufacturer is going to come back from the dead within a few weeks to a month and say yeah, you're good to go, and even if they did, that would mean the sound library would be way more than 70 bucks.
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